Super Mario Bithday Party

Super Mario Birthday!

I put ALOT of effort into this party! I made the piranha plants and Mario and Luigi hats myself!

The birthday boy!


Princess Peach


The Menu:

What else but an Italian Feast for the Super Mario Brothers
Spaghetti, Salad, and Garlic Bread! Yum, yum!


FABULOUS Cake, Mario cookies, mushroom cupcakes,
and my homemade Black Chain Chomp Monster Pinata!

The cookies!

I also had little mushroom tins with candy inside for prizes

All the guests got to choose their character when they arrived. We had Mario hats, Luigi hats, mustaches, or princess crowns and wands, for Princess Peach.

Some of the guests dressed up!

They had such a good time!

Sweet Shop Baby Shower

A "sweet" shower for a sweet friend. Up first is the incrEdible cakes!

The Gumball machine!

The giant lollipop cake!

Picture frame name

The home-made sweet shop sign!
The candy bar!

We found penny bags for the candy buffet

Sweet cookies

Colorful fruit boquet...I just love these.

And the kid's cupcakes (in colorful ice cream cones)

We also gave out gumball machines found at the local dollar store since we had several children present at the baby shower.

It was fun to gather all the candy!

Two Peas in a Pod Baby Shower

This was my shower for my twins. It was scheduled to be January 5, which ended up being the day they were born. 31 weekers. So we had to reschedule. They were still in the NICU.

Two peas in a pod cake

All the party supplies were green! Of coarse, right after the shower, they came out with "two peas in a pod supplies" They are super cute!

We had games! The guess the weight, height game. We couldn't do the date since everyone knew when they were born! Also, we had advise cards. The green pea pods were a game that had a peas in it. The one with the most peas won. And we had a scratch off lottery ticket with 2 winners. We had "My water broke" game. We put little plastic babies in ice cubes and gave them to the guests. The first one whose water broke and the baby came out, won! The prized were these cute "two peas in a pod" salt and pepper shakers.

"Wild West" Cowgirl Party - Yeehaw!

This was an awesome Western Cowgirl party! The venue was a wonderful small local zoo called The Little Ponderosa.

The cake. What cowgirl wouldn't love this??

Behind the cake, you can see the treatbags. Each child's bag had their names on them with hay string and a cowgirl cardstock. Inside was plastic snakes, sherrif badges, cowboys and indians, wanted signs for the kids pictures from the party, themed candy, and much more. Little kids who wouldn't appreciate the bags got stick horseys instead. I found them at the local dollar store!

All of the children got nametags when they got there of a "Wild West" person. The birthday girl was "Annie Oakley" This was very fun as everyone tried to get into the persona.

The cow"girl" hat cookies. They were a hit. I used treat bags and just wrapped them up in them. I think it made quite an impact.


Again, I didn't take good pictures of all my tables. I am usually too busy, but behind the girls, you can see the table clothes used as well as the centerpieces, barbed wire, lanterns, old milk jugs, galvanized buckets, and boots. (I also used these for another party)

The menu:

hotdogs, homemade chili (by my mom), chips, corn on the cob, pasta salad (with wagon wheel pasta), baked beans, and all the condiments. We used the old speckled pots and bandanda serving plates, like you see with the cookies. Bandana plates and napkins. It was super wild west!

The invitations: (I will have to find a picture of them) They were shaped like a boot (handmade) and it had a brad that made the boot swivvle open with the invite wording inside. It was sooooo cute. Will post a pic as soon as I find it.

The brown packages with the blue paisley and tied with hay string.

Can you tell they were from me?

They kids all got endless pony rides as well as access to the whole zoo featuring llamas, goats, chickens, snakes, a playground, and much more.

Everyone had a great time getting dressed up their cowboy and cowgirl best.

MONKEY party!!

This was the twins 2nd birthday (they just turned 3), but I loved the monkey theme, so I had to put it on here, even though I don't have very many pictures of the party.

Banner from birthdayexpress.com

Blowing out the candles on their egg-free individual monkey cakes

Found shirts that say I am 2 with a monkey hanging on to the 2! I'm sure they were for boys, but the blue and yellow went with the colors anyway!

The supplies came from birthdayexpress.com They finally have parties for being 2!

little cakes

I found monkey plates for the twins.

Menu:

Bananas!
And little chicken quesadillas, chicken finger platter, fruit tray, cheetos, veggie tray, and chips and dip. Perfect kid food!

I used yellow treatbags and made stickers to put on the bags that went with the theme.

The big monkey cake

Western Theme Party

Western Theme SURPRISE 60th Birthday for a dear friend of our family. Her daughters asked for our help and I think we delivered! Thanks to the birthday lady herself for unknowingly letting us borrow supplies!

centerpeices

The drink bar

We used mason jar glasses, tin pails, and pitchers.


Menu:
Chili beans, mexican cornbread, BBQ pork and buns, corn on the cob,
pasta salad, potato salad, crackers

Yes, that is a covered wagon!
Blue speckled dishes like on the Oregon Trail! Bandanas everywhere!

The venue was the Pavilion at Cove Lake Park in Jacksboro, TN.

This was perfect for the theme with the rustic wood look.

For some reason, I don't have a picture of the tables for eating, but when I find one, I will post it. They had lanterns, the flower centerpieces, and pretend barbed wire all around.

All the tables had the red and white checked table clothes. You can maybe see it in the background of some pictures.

One of the cakes, a guitar wtih strings!


And the fabulous cowboy hat. Yes, this is a cake!

Cakes from IncrEdible Cakery (my mom)

See...told you it was a cake!

We had all the guests dress western and we gave out sherrif badges and bandanas for the bandits. You can see the tables behind with the old-fashioned oil lanterns.

We even had karaoke provided by her best friend. It was a huge hit.

I also did a slideshow, with a projector, of pictures from her life and set it to music. It was pretty fabulous it I do say so myself! Very special memories made.